babracot

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noun

A grate used by some native South Americans to roast meat.

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Meanings

nounbabracot (plural babracots)

plural babracots

  1. A grate used by some native South Americans to roast meat.

    Before they leave a temporary camp in the forest, where they have killed a tapir and dried the meat on a babracot, the Indians of Guiana invariably destroy this babracot.

    1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 236
verbbabracot (third-person singular simple present babracots, present participle babracoting, simple past and past participle babracoted)

present singular third person babracots · participle present babracoting · participle past babracoted · past babracoted

  1. To roast on the babracot.

    Should a tapir passing that way find traces of the slaughter of one of his kind, he would come by night on the next occasion when Indians slept at that place, and, taking a man, would babracot him in revenge.

    1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 236
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